Proverbial Wisdom
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.
247.
What female heart can gold despise?
What cat’s averse to fish?
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat
248. Life has no path so short as to renown !
King Arthur, Bk XII, CLXI
249. Curses, like young chickens, come home to roost.
The Curse of Kehama
250. Do the duty that lies nearest thee; which thou knowest to be a duty. The second duty will already become clearer.
Sartor Resartus, Bk II, Ch. IX
251. Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and want makes strife between the good man and his wife.
252.
Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes
Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes:
Antiquity and birth are needless here;
’Tis impudence and money makes a peer.
The True-born Englishman, Pt I